Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

Post by luismedel » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 6:19 AM UTC

almostgotcaught wrote: post #29

zeroq wrote: post #7

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Wait till you hear about Typescript, you know adding types to ECMAScript, like Macromedia did some 20 years ago. :) Being in the industry for 20+ years and starting as a teenager making games in Flash it makes really hard for me to treat webdev seriously with all their revolutionary innovations. At work I often encounter a resistance to a tech or solution I propose, because "there hasen't been any substational contri…

> how do you calculate hypotenuse, because it's been a long time since Pythagoras made the last commit. Asinine - everything advances and needs maintenance over time, even geometry. I invite you to try building a game without using quaternions or projective (ie non-euclidean) geometry. Edit: does hn award points based on contrariness? Or is it just that people on hn think they're super clever with their contrary poin…

Post by BozeWolf » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 6:22 AM UTC

coding123 wrote: post #15

whalesalad wrote: post #4

we've come full circle - macromedia dreamweaver had this in 2001

Anyone here remember homesite?

Post by darreninthenet » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 6:45 AM UTC

pjerem wrote: post #33

urin wrote: post #21

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There are complex reasons behind my development of this. To be honest, I don’t think the editing functionality of this tool is particularly useful. I believe the real-time preview and element selection features are the ones that offer broader utility. I am considering making the editing feature disabled by default and allowing it to be enabled through settings in the future.

I don’t think it was meant to criticize your work :) It’s just fun to see that we (here : you) are reinventing tools that everyone used 20 or 30 years ago. I remember making my first websites in Dreamweaver. I remember it being hated by "pro" developers but this plus an FTP client (which was integrated IIRC) was enough for teenager me to be live on the internet.

Post by stevage » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 6:59 AM UTC

vivzkestrel wrote: post #18

Are we trying to reinvent web development? Last few years have been wild. We abandoned HTML CSS and JS websites that used to work just fine and ran after frontend component frameworks and now the circle is getting completed by building tools and extensions we had 20 yrs ago

Post by smusamashah » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 7:02 AM UTC

urin wrote: post #31

8mobile wrote: post #28

Thanks for sharing but I don't find big differences with the currently existing "live preview" and other plug-ins. Can you explain what are the features of your Web Visual Editor? Thanks

A notable feature is the ability to synchronize code selection with visual selection in the preview. Since this extension has minimal functionality, the codebase is very small, making future expansions easy. It is designed to reflect changes made in the preview back to the code, so enhancing the editing capabilities within the preview may be beneficial in the future.